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Halloween Wines You’ll Be Dying to Taste

  • Posted by The CorkGuru
It’s mid October, the leaves are starting to fall, and the nights are beginning to get darker and spookier. That means it’s almost Halloween, the one time of the year you can scare the crap out of your friends, family and neighbors and get away with it. It’s also a time of year when the […]

5 Perfect Football Tailgating Food and Wine Pairings

  • Posted by The CorkGuru
This time of year brings the beginning of two important seasons: wine harvest and football season! You may not think that these two phenomena go together, but I am here to prove you wrong. It doesn’t matter if you’re more of a sports fanatic or wine aficionado, because both of these groups have one thing […]

The Only Cabernet Franc Wine in Pittsburgh is Part of a Crime Scene

  • Posted by CorkNoob
  Okay I may be exaggerating just a little bit, but this is what really happened. This past week, I came home from a work trip and my apartment was broken into. The side window was left wide open. This also happens to be the same window where I store all of my “in progress” […]

Curtain Call Wines: There’s No Shame

  • Posted by Danielle Gillespie
The other day I was plugged into my headphones and this song came up on my playlist. I actually like this song. Don’t judge. Seriously! I’m making a point, not looking for a character assessment based on my musical choices (and by all means, if you are offended by explicit lyrics, please do not listen […]

Summer Wine Tasting: 7 Winery & Vineyard Vacation Spots in the US

  • Posted by The CorkGuru
Summer is officially here and some of us haven’t planned a vacation quite yet. If you’re looking for a last minute weekend getaway with scenic views and multiple tasty beverages to sip, then visiting a winery or vineyard could be the perfect trip for you.   The Daily Meal recently put together a list of […]

Australian Wine Part 2: CorkNoob Wine Tasting

  • Posted by The CorkGuru
Earlier this month, we outlined a guide for Australian wine, drawing attention to the fact that the Aussie’s produce tastier vino than American wine drinkers realize. We thought we’d take this concept to the next level and have our resident wine newbie, the “CorkNoob”, tell us what she thinks after being tasked with purchasing some […]

How to Saber a Champagne Bottle

  • Posted by CorkNoob
After seeing countless videos of CorkGuru clients sabering their first champagne bottles and breaking their “saber virginity”, the CorkNoob is feeling a little left out as well as intrigued about how this whole sabering thing really works.   Simply being involved in CorkGuru and doing some research online (mainly watching Alton Brown’s video) has brought […]

Starting A Wine Collection

  • Posted by Danielle Gillespie
I’ve been collecting wine for a long time…too many years to put into print, so let’s just suffice to say it’s been a long time. In fact, I started collecting shortly after I took my first job fresh out of college, when through some miracle of fate I was able to finagle a business trip […]

Oddball Wine Pairings for Thanksgiving

  • Posted by Danielle Gillespie
Thanksgiving comes but one time a year, in all its glorious pomp and ritual. I will be perfectly honest; I count myself amongst those lucky enough to be thankful each and every day of the year. So when the ACTUAL day rolls around, I can’t help but get a little mischievous. And frankly, the family-time […]

corkSWAGGER: How to Pick from a Restaurant Wine List

  • Posted by Danielle Gillespie
I recently read a great blog post referring to a sales technique that defined swagger as a “mix of positive expectation and objective indifference.” Since reading the article, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about other potential –swaggers, and more specifically about corkSWAGGER. The concept lines up perfectly with our quest to help people love and […]